Hot new MoveOn ad campaign: You can’t stomp on me, Republicans

posted at 8:55 pm on October 29, 2010 by Allahpundit

They’re of course playing off the incident outside that Rand Paul/Jack Conway debate earlier this week, which to the left is an indictment of every tea partier in the world and to the other 80 percent of America is an isolated thing that doesn’t matter a whit to the election. Which explains why Rasmussen’s new poll has Paul up by fully 12 points.

I should have included this in that post earlier about the Party of Ideas not wanting to talk about ideas so much right now. ObamaCare? Never heard of it. Rand Paul supporter stepping on someone’s shoulder? National campaign.

Liberal organizations are one-upping the Tea Party’s “Don’t tread on me” slogan with a new “You can’t stomp on me” campaign. Liberal organizations MoveOn.org, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and CREDO are uniting in reaction to the incident on Monday when a volunteer for Republican Rand Paul’s campaign for U.S. Senate in Kentucky literally stomped his foot on activist Laura Valle, leaving her with a concussion.

The organization is calling on people to take a picture of themselves with a sign that says, “You can’t stomp on me,” and then upload the picture to the site. “By uploading your picture,” reads the e-mail, “you can show that your voice will not be silenced even in the face of intimidating and thuggish behavior. We’ll put all the photos in one public place as a statement of solidarity with Lauren and a promise to keep speaking out.”

Here’s the MoveOn page, which, incredible though it may seem, isn’t the first liberal website to invite taking photos of yourself holding a sign because you’re depressed about an election. Remember “Sorry Everybody” after Bush won? What is with these people and their strange form of therapy? Dude, I think it’s genetic.

You’ll be pleased to know that none other than Michael Moore has a brand new op-ed built around this very same theme, and it’s every bit as smart and sober as you’d expect it to be. The punchline to all this MoveOn hand-wringing about wingnut violence? Watch the video below (via Gateway Pundit) and you’ll see. Exit quotation: “If I’m going to take part in these political events, I need to learn some self-control.”

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“By uploading your picture,” reads the e-mail, “you can show that your voice will not be silenced even in the face of intimidating and thuggish behavior. We’ll put all the photos in one public place as a statement of solidarity with Lauren and a promise to keep speaking out.”

Wasn’t she trying to spoof a fake message as a way of making the crowd she was in look bad?
That’s a little twisted to call that “speaking out”.

I wondered about something. If I understand this right, the objective was to present Paul with a fake check, along with congratulations for a fake employee of the month award. I also thought I heard somebody chanting “Read The Check” when she was wrestling with the crowd.

While I dig the Gadsen flag, and wave it at Tea Parties, I don’t like the the idea of calling it “The flag of the tea party”. The tea party has no ownership over it, like the American flag it doesn’t belong to any one group.

Hey, you dorks at MoveOn. Y’know how Chris Matthews gets tinkles that run down his leg? Well, I get tinkles that run up my torso and out through my sleeves every time I think about how we’re gonna collectively, as a nation, and in a purely metaphorical sense, grind your collective skulls into the ground on Nov. 2.

And, hey, Chris Matthews. I know you think that we’re going to be doing that grinding of your skulls while wearing hobnail boots. Wrong, loser. We’re going to grind your skulls while wearing baseball cleats. You guys run around wearing ballet slippers (very becoming on you, BTW) — but we wear baseball cleats because cleats give traction, and that’s exactly what you’re going to see happen on Nov. 2.

Hey moveon, tell ya what. Don’t send people to Republican rallies and have those people rush a candidate when the crowd doesn’t know who they are. As you know, today saw either a potential terrorist attack or a dry run for a terrorist attack, so we know terrorists are still looking for targets. When someone in a crowd does something, oh how to say this — crazy, Americans in that crowd are NOT going to stand idly by to see what the bats#$t crazy woman is going to do because, you see, they don’t have the benefit of foreknowledge or hindsight while the event is happening. Act crazy and you are going to get stopped, and maybe none too gently.

Now, if you want to hold signs that say your regular stupid stuff and scream your usual stupid things — go right ahead. That is perfectly within your constitutional rights and we’ve learned to put up with that kind of silliness from you. We’ve all got crazy uncles or lunatic aunts, so we know ya’ll can’t help yourselves. Just don’t try rushing someone, that’s not a good idea.

After all, it’s not like she was just selling campaign buttons on the sidewalk, ya know?

I guess we will see on election day whether Moveon gets stomped at the ballot box.

I’m pretty sure they haven’t got the prestige they used to have… crying wolf (or Bush lied) over and over sort of makes people quit listening.

When I see the medical records that say she really got a concussion out of that then I’ll believe it. But these people lie for a living and I don’t believe she got a concussion.

It is so difficult to believe that the whole thing wasn’t a set up. Shame on the idiot who didn’t control himself, but that was the girl’s plan all along. And now they think they’ve won some victory. They are morally bankrupt.

Thoughts on the Rand Paul rally and attempts to assassinate Gerald Ford

In the furor about the man who used his foot to hold down a MoveOn.org woman trying to rush Rand Paul, previous assassination attempts on Gerald Ford should be considered. What is especially interesting is the calm way the second assassin, Sara Jane Moore, describes her attempt. She had planned just one shot and was surprised that she had time for a second shot because Ford stopped and looked at her. The news report said her motives were “confused.” Somehow the motives of those on the Left are always, always confused; “confused” being a code word used to blur the fact that the would-be assassins on the Left really hate Republicans, even moderate Republicans like Gerald Ford.

Personally, I have more respect for radical islamic terrorists. At least they’re not trying to feed you bull$hit before they try to kill you.

Islam translates to Submission, the literal meaning of Islam. If you think that not being the right brand of Jihadist isn’t bull$shit, Danny, you’re confused. Being forced to “confess” prior to having your head sawn off IS only the tail end of the Islamic experience that taxes all who are not Muslim for not being Muslim.

The moveon.org feminist activist was not stomped on the head, but on her back between her shoulders. That does not cause a concussion, but certainly knocks the breath out of you, and could cause dislocation or broken skeletal frame. So she can either produce the certified by Rand Paul’s doctor x-rays of the supposed injuries, or stfu. You get what you ask for when you charge towards another in attack mode. Feminists can’t cry about being treated the same as a man.

“By uploading your picture you can show that your voice will not be silenced even in the face of intimidating and thuggish behavior. We’ll put all the photos in one public place as a statement of solidarity … and a promise to keep speaking out.”

I appreciate your comments. However, don’t try to read too deeply into what I have written – and extrapolate what I may or may not know. Not your fault – I should have been more clear.

Frankly, and sad to say, I now believe both radical Islamic fanatacist terrorists and extreme left liberals to be a serious threat – their desired outcome being the same – submission by others to themselves. The overt nature of the radical Islamic terrorist is plainly obvious with respect to the desired outcome.

On the contrary, the desired outcome for the radical left liberal is more subtle. More easily hidden through passage of 2000pg + laws without a thorough review by those signing them (which republicans better stop doing as well), selectively enforcing laws (e.g. voting rights laws), having a mass media willing to berate & belittle those who disagree with them – while spewing propaganda, etc. It is this subtlety (?sp) that I have come to truly despise. President Obama made it clear how he truly felt by the statement after winning the 2008 election to his political opponents, “I won.” implying that he could do whatever – yet just “take it”, and more recently specifically to Latinos, calling those of us who disagree “enemies”.

Frankly, I despise both groups, and rinos who sell their principles for “compromise”. They want us to be slaves. This American will never be a slave. Thus the Sons of Liberty reference above.

For those of us who love this country, we will have more battles with those who are brainwashed in madrassas, and those who are brainwashed in universities/colleges. If unrepentant people like Bill Ayers continue to be allowed to spew their garbage and poison for naive minds to absorb, then we have to start treating the likes of him just like the radical Islamic terrorist.

Interview with Kenneth Gladney, Man Assaulted by Union Thugs at Town Hall

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maverick muse on October 30, 2010 at 9:39 AM

Remember the two people — Republicans, staff members of Bobby Jindal’s in Louisiana — who were assaulted in New Orleans not so long ago, as they were leaving a GOP Conference (I think it was on the O-healthcare debacle)? One of them, the female of the couple, had her leg broken in several places by the assailants, who clearly made a POLITICALLY motivated attack on the two.

Last I read, the police were still “looking” for the two culprits, while the media overall fell completely and utterly silent after the first breaking news of that assault.

Ready, willing, and fully capable of doing far more than that, pals. Oh, and Mr. Massey needs to come talk to me before his next rally–the Corps taught me how to put a sonofab!tch choking me down on the ground and deliver a killing blow to him within about 10 seconds of him putting his filthy claws on me. I’d have been happy to do it, too.